The representative of the Ministry of the Interior does not hide it: the expulsion of imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi to Tunisia on the same day of his arrest, February 23, is a “harsh decision”.
Director of public liberties and legal affairs within the ministry, Pascale Leglise also does not dispute the “serious” attack on private and family life that this exceptional decision entails.
But for this senior official, it was “perfectly necessary and adapted and proportionate to the seriousness” of the situation.
A week after this express expulsion relayed live by tweets from Gérald Darmanin, Place Beauvau came to defend the legitimacy of its decision, contested this Friday March 1 afternoon before the Paris administrative court by the imam's defense, who sees it as “a serious and manifestly illegal attack” on respect for his fundamental rights.
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